Trump says Musk will face “ serious consequences ” if he finances democratic candidates

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that there would be “serious consequences” if the Elon Musk technology tycoon founds the Democratic candidates to present themselves against the Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP budget bill.

“If he does it, he will have to pay the consequences for this,” Trump told NBC News in a telephone interview, but refused to share these consequences.

“He will have to pay very serious consequences if he does,” he added.

The president also said that he had no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a quarrel between the two men burst in the audience Earlier this week.

“No,” said Trump when he was asked if he wanted to do it.

When asked if he thought that his relationship with Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over, Trump said, “I guess yes, yes.”

Trump’s comments have been the most extensive since he and Musk exchanged threats and attacks on X and Truth Social earlier this week. He added that he thought that the Republican Party was more unified than ever after the two men fell in front of the world.

Trump said he didn’t intend to speak with Musk soon. “I am too busy doing other things,” he said, adding: “I have no intention of talking to him.”

Trump also accused Musk of being “disrespectful towards the president’s office”.

“I think it is a very bad thing because it is very disrespectful. You could not lack respect for the president’s office,” he added.

Musk launched a message dam on X on Thursday against the president, including an article now deleted highlighting the time Links between the president and the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“It’s called” Old News “is an old news, which we’ve been talking about for years,” Trump said on Saturday. “Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with that. It’s old news.”

In the days preceding their absence of audiences, Musk had criticized a spending bill led by the GOP that the Chamber adopted last month.

In the Oval Office Thursday, Trump responded to Musk’s criticisms, saying to journalists: “I am very disappointed because Elon knew the interior functioning of this bill. I am very disappointed by Elon. I helped Elon a lot.

Shortly after these comments, Musk launched his burst of messages, in particular by promoting a message Call Trump to be dismissed and another where he said the president’s pricing agenda would cause a recession Later this year.

Trump Thursday also replied with his own messages on Truth Social. In a post, he wrote“I don’t mind Elon to return against me, but he should have done it months ago,” suggesting that Musk knew what was in the bill before his adoption.

He too wrote On Thursday, “the simplest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate subsidies and government contracts from Elon”, referring to federal contracts with SpaceX. “I have always been surprised that Biden did not do it!”

Trump said on Saturday that he had no longer suggested canceling federal contracts for Musk companies.

“I would be allowed to do this,” he said, “but I did it, I didn’t think about it.”

He also questioned the idea that the opposition of Musk to “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” endangered the chances of success of the bill, affirming that it is “very confident” that the bill will adopt the Senate before July 4.

“The Republican Party has never been united like that before. This is never the case. It is actually more than it was three days ago,” said Trump.

Musk provided major financial support to Trump’s presidential offer in 2024, expenses More than a quarter of a billion dollars To stimulate it in swing states last year. During the first months of the administration, Trump took charge of the government’s ministry for efficiency, where he supervised the layoffs of federal workers and the closure or partial closure of several agencies.

The quarrel, Trump said, prompted legislators to see the benefits of the bill.

“I think that Elon brought out the strengths of the bill because people who were not as concentrated have started to focus on it, and they see how good it is,” said Trump. “So, in this sense, there was a great favor. But I think that Elon, really, I think it’s a shame that he is so depressed and so broken.”